Basics
Does anyone know of a website that deals with basic statistic formulae and/or business math? Also, I am looking for a text book that could give me a grounding in the basics of statistics, stat. analysis and business maths. I need to cram so I have some idea for a job interview I have coming up. Any help or advice would be very much appreciated. Thanks, The Panic Merchant = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
Re: Basics
colsul wrote: > > Does anyone know of a website that deals with basic statistic formulae > and/or business math? Also, I am looking for a text book that could give me > a grounding in the basics of statistics, stat. analysis and business maths. > I need to cram so I have some idea for a job interview I have coming up. Any > help or advice would be very much appreciated. Beware. Spouting crammed-but-not-understood "knowledge" can make you look like an idiot, which isn't a good thing to appear to be in an interview. Glen = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
Re: Basics
Read the request closely as answering newsgroup queries without understanding what is said can make you look, no, confirm you are stupid. "Glen Barnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > colsul wrote: > > > > Does anyone know of a website that deals with basic statistic formulae > > and/or business math? Also, I am looking for a text book that could give me > > a grounding in the basics of statistics, stat. analysis and business maths. > > I need to cram so I have some idea for a job interview I have coming up. Any > > help or advice would be very much appreciated. > > Beware. Spouting crammed-but-not-understood "knowledge" can make you > look like an idiot, which isn't a good thing to appear to be in an > interview. > > Glen = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
Re: Basics
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 09:22:26 +1100, "colsul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Read the request closely as answering newsgroup queries without > understanding what is said can make you look, no, confirm you are stupid. In Sensitivity-group country, we try to say (if confrontation is necessary) that an *action* is stupid or poorly considered, not that a person is stupid. (That is usually enough to make one's point... without getting embarrassed by over-ambitious flaming) In sci.stat.edu, we usually post the content that we are replying to, before we add comments; and we might criticize in some fashion, but we would never call a regular post-er 'stupid', who has offered dozens or hundreds of useful comments in the past. Before posting to a particular Internet group, it is well-advised to read a number of posts there, to pick up on the acceptable content and style. Besides all that, I have to say: from what I made of your question, I agree 100% with Glen's response. He gave a (relatively) gentle warning about a course of action. As a matter of fact, I find it hard to *imagine* cramming (which you ask about) for a job interview, unless it was following the advice, 'Learn about the job/ company.' But that's not something to look up in a textbook. -- Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
Re: Basics
Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 09:22:26 +1100, "colsul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Read the request closely as answering newsgroup queries without > > understanding what is said can make you look, no, confirm you are stupid. > > In Sensitivity-group country, we try to say (if confrontation is > necessary) that an *action* is stupid or poorly considered, not > that a person is stupid. (That is usually enough to make one's > point... without getting embarrassed by over-ambitious flaming) > > In sci.stat.edu, we usually post the content that we are replying > to, before we add comments; and we might criticize in some fashion, > but we would never call a regular post-er 'stupid', who has offered > dozens or hundreds of useful comments in the past. Thanks Rich. Not that I'm bothered by this sort of response - I am quite comfortable with my stupidity. I did try to point out his(?) actions might make him look stupid to a potential employer, but I think he was too busy taking offence to notice I was trying to help. > Besides all that, I have to say: from what I made of your question, > I agree 100% with Glen's response. He gave a (relatively) gentle > warning about a course of action. > > As a matter of fact, I find it hard to *imagine* cramming (which > you ask about) for a job interview, unless it was following the > advice, 'Learn about the job/ company.' But that's not > something to look up in a textbook. Yeah, general learning about the job or company is a useful thing to do, mainly because it makes you look like you care about the job enough to find out. But cramming an area of knowledge so as to try to pass yourself off as knowing more than you do seems like a recipe for disaster. I'd have thought it far better to say "I only know a little about this stuff, but it's an area I'm keen to learn more about" would go over better with an employer. And if you want jobs like that one, then actually go and learn the stuff properly, so that next time you can actually claim to know about it. If I was interviewing him (and I have interviewed people for jobs involving statistics before), and he claimed to know something about statistics, you can bet I'd be asking questions about it. You can also bet I'd spot that he didn't really know it very well in no time at all. And then I'd be saying "Do we really want to employ someone who'd try to pull that kind of a stunt in an interview?" Glen = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
What are basics of statistics?
Dear all, I am a programmer and database administrator, I have been equipped with IT basics. After I do OLAP (data mart) and data mining, I am turning into a statistics + IT cross-disciplinary area for master and doctor degrees. Can anyone tell me what the basics of statistics are required? 1. Introduction to Statistics 2. Multi-variable analysis? 3. statistics tools (statistica?) Anything else? Thanks, Dino = Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
